State's Health Exchange Rejected Amid GOP Rift

By

Louise Radnofsky

Feb. 8, 2013 6:16 p.m. ET

Federal health officials on Friday denied Mississippi's request to run its own health-insurance exchange, ending one of the more unusual disputes between Republican state lawmakers over the federal health-care law.

Across the country, GOP lawmakers who oppose the 2010 law are dividing over whether to continue resisting it or to try to shape how it is implemented, now that a ruling by the Supreme Court and the result of last year's presidential election have left the law's position secure. This past week, Republican...